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forebode

v. பொல்லாங்கு முன்னறிவித்துக் காட்டு, தீமை குறித்துக்காட்டு, தீக்குறியாயமை, பின்வரு தீமையின் முன்குறி காண்.


Fore*bode", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] Etym: [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.] 1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James. Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. Fore*bode", v. i. Defn: To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne. Fore*bode", n. Defn: Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]


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